Prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum Parasitaemia and Its Correlation with Haematological Parameters among HIV-Positive Individuals in Nigeria

Table 1

Enrollment data of the HIV patients attending IHVN Clinic recruited into the study.

Number of subjects examined	200
Mean age (years) ± SD	36.24 ± 10.01
Sex (male/female)	48/152
Mean haemoglobin	10.85 ± 1.88
Mean packed cell volume (%)	32.53 ± 4.41
Mean CD4+ count(cells)	391.31 ± 237.14
Number of positive by microscopy (%)
(i) P.  falciparum	20 (10)
(ii) P.  malariae	2
P.  falciparum positive by stevor PCR (%)	37 (18.5%)